This Race Could Decide the Fate of Democracy in Wisconsin—and the 2024 Election
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On December 12, 2020—a day after the US Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas that sought to void the presidential election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard a separate challenge by Donald…
“Closed by Order of the Governor”: Teachers in the Crossfire of Florida’s War on Public Education
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On the morning of January 23, Jean Faulk opened her inbox to find an email labeled “urgent” from her principal at Bayshore High School in Bradenton, Florida. “Based on clarifications from the state in December, teacher-created classroom libraries fall…
Should Your Car Know When You’re Too Drunk to Drive?
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When President Biden signed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill in 2021, he committed $1.2 trillion to rebuilding the nation’s roads and bridges. The president spearheaded one of the biggest investments in infrastructure in decades: more than $42 billion for broadband…
He’s the Most Popular President In the World. Everyone Hates Him.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA, is a 52-year-old Swiss-Italian with dark eyebrows and an intensely round, perfectly bald head, like a soccer ball that had a dream of becoming an accountant. He splits his time between Zurich, Doha,…
Inside the Secret Working Group That Helped Push Anti-Trans Laws Across the Country
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a Saturday afternoon in August 2019, South Dakota Republican state Rep. Fred Deutsch sent an email to 18 anti-trans activists, doctors, and lawyers with the text of a bill he planned to introduce that would make it a felony…
Steve Bannon, an Exiled Mogul, and the Ukraine Rescue Effort That (Mostly) Wasn’t
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As Yana Ibragimov and her two young children waited at the Lviv train station, it was snowing. This was March 7, 2022, early in the war in Ukraine. Russian troops were advancing. A day earlier, Russian shells had killed…